Medical students who decompress during the M-1 year outperform those who fail and repeat it: A study of M-1 students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign 1988–2000

Table 2 Comparison of MCAT Between the Decompressed and Repeating Groups

Oneway Analysis of MCAT By Program t-Test
	Difference	t-Test	DF	Prob>/t/
Estimate	-0.38724	-1.411	102	0.1613
Std Error	0.27448
Lower 95%	-0.93167
Upper 95%	0.15719
Means and Standard Deviations Level	Number	Mean	Std Dev	Std Err Mean	Lower 95%	Upper 95%
Decompress	60	7.61253	1.33963	0.17295	7.2665	7.9586
Repeat	44	7.99977	1.4402	0.21712	7.5619	8.4376

Table Two shows there was no significant difference between decompressed group and the repeating group relative to MCAT score. (MCAT data not available for 3 students in the decompressed group.)

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